A review on automatic mammographic density and parenchymal segmentation

International Journal of Breast Cancer

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  He, Wenda ^a   Juette, Arne ^b   Denton, Erika R E ^b   Oliver, Arnau ^c   Martí, Robert ^c   Zwiggelaar, Reyer ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DENSITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84961711940     PISSN: 20903170     EISSN: 20903189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/276217     Document Type: Article

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